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AGS DROP TWO; TEXAS
TRACKMEN TO NATIONAL MEET
SWIMMERS CLEAN UP AT GALVESTON
MEN DUE FOR TRIP Wendt and Mills
Hurl for Ags.
3-1 AND 5-2
HERE AND THERE
We hope no one doubts the fact
that this college seriously needs an
all-time baseball Coach.
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The Intra-mural Department will
hold its annual swimming meet next
Saturday. The events will be:
50 yard free style.
50 yard breast stroke.
50 yard back stroke.
100 fard free stroke.
Fancy diving.
There will be three dives required
and one optional. The required dives
are: front, jacknife and back.
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The swimming team has received
offers to place them for the summer.
It is very unlikely that they will ac
cept.
FINAL CONFERENCE STANDING
P. V/. L.
Pet.
Texas
20 16 4
.800
Baylor
.750
A. & M
15 9 6
.600
T. C. U
20 8 12
.400
Rice
.350
S. M. U
19 3 16
.156
RESULTS OF LAST GAMES
Texas 3-5; Aggies 1-2
Texas 11-13; Rice 10-2
Baylor 7-8; Rice 0-1
T. C. U. 19-4; S. M. U. 3-0
INTRAiURALS
COMPANY H—BATTERY D TIE
FOR INTRAMURAL TRACK
CHAMPIONSHIP
Battery D tied Company H, win
ner in ’28, for high honors in the an
nual Intramural track and field meet
staged last week on Kyle Field. Com
pany H led all the organizations un
til the last event was turned in and
Battery D managed to find enough
points to equal the 26 that the In
fantrymen had piled up. Troop C
came third with 22 points and was
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Need Larger Pool
For Training
SWIMMERS SPLASH TO WIN
Texas Aggie 100 yard relay swim
ming team cut four seconds off the
National Y. M. C. A. record Saturday
night in an exhibition swim staged in
the Houston Y. M. C. A. pool. The
team, Suggs, Cox, Sproule and Homa-
son, covered the distance in 47:5. The
old record was 51:2.
Sunday the Cadets again copped
first honors in the annual Gulf Coast
swimming championships held annual
ly at Galveston, bringing back to Ag-
gieland a handsome 12 inch silver lov
ing cup for their pains. This trophy
is to be the permanent possession of
the swimming team. This is the sec
ond time in three years that A. & M.
has placed first in this meet.
The Aggies accomplished the deed
by winning 42 out of a possible 63
points. Herman Cox, coach, placed
second in the 50-yard dash with N. C.
Starr third. Curtis Everts and A. A.
Sproule finished in the order named
in the 100-yard affair, while Sproule
was first and Everts second in the
220-yard race. The 100-yard race was
covered in 56:5, a new Gulf Coast
record. Everts also emerged first in
the half mile swim, besting the pride
of Galveston, Leroy Colombo in this
event.
Dan Humason followed Evert’s ex
ample and set a new Gulf Coast rec
ord in the 100 yard back stroke race,
covering the distance in 60:8. Carl
Clardy, a former Aggie swimmer but
now with a Galveston surf club, plac
ed second. R. C. Suggs finished first
in the breast stroke, Humason placing
second. N. C. Starr and R. C. Rucker
took first and second respectively in
the fancy diving class.
This is the fifth swimming meet
that the Aggie team has entered in
the past three years, and it has yet
to taste defeat.
Saturday night Everts swam in a
meet as a member of the Houston Y.
M. C. A. team, wanning both the 100
and 220 yard dashes.
Council to Act
With the conference championship
safely stowed away, four members
of Coach Anderson’s champion team
are seeking other worlds to conquer.
Thompson, Farmer, Slocomb, and
Flos^d are working our orally in prep
aration for the National Intercolle
giate meet, to be held in Chicago
early in June. If the Athletic coun-
cill will allow them to make the long-
journey, it would not be surprising
to see these men make a remarkable
showing, if w r e compare their best
performances with those turned in
at the meet last year.
In 1928, only three men in the
country beat Slocomb’s time of 23.6
in the low hurdles; and two of these
have finished their collegiate com
petition, leaving only Cooper of Mi
chigan, who has made 23.5, to re
turn this year. His time is only one-
tenth second better than Slocomb’s,
and Slocomb made his mark after-
running the highs. Judging from
past performances, the slim sopho
more has an excellent chance of plac
ing high in his event.
The javelin throw was won last
year with a heave of 216 feet, 7 in
ches, and only three of the six men
placing went over 200 feet. Floyd
made a throw of 204 feet, 4 1-2
inches in the conference meet, and
this mark would have placed him
third las't year. However, he has been
able to do his best under strong
competition, and it is quite possi
ble that he might better his mark at
Chicago.
Although his time is not as good
as that turned in at the National
meet last year, Thompson would
have an excellent chance to place.
Brunson of Rice placed third last
year, and Thompson took his mea
sure at the Conference meet this
year. Thompson paced the half mile
in 2:00.2 on a muddy track, and with
a stiff wind blowing. He is agreat
fighter, and should be able to make
a good showing.
Farmer set a new record in the
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The Aggies dropped two hard
fought battles to the Longhorns on
Monday and Tuesday, the first game
by a 3-1 score, and the second, 5-2.
This gives Texas the Conference
championship, as they hold a half
game lead over Baylor. The young
Aggie team acquitted themselves
nobly in the series, as “Uncle Billy”
Disch has a great ball club.
Prospects for next year are ex
ceedingly bright, as only Austin
Bray will graduate, leaving almost
the entire team intact; and they will
be ably re-enforced by several mem
bers of this year’s “Fish” squad.
First Game
Pete Wendt and Johnny Railton
hooked up in a hurlers’ duel in the
first tilt, and each pitched a wonder
ful game; and in ordinary circum
stances, either performance would
have been good enough to win. But
the breaks were on the side of the
slim southpaw from Texas, and Pete
lost a heart-breaking contest. The
Aggies fought a hard battle all the
way, and but for a questionable de
cision in the ninth round, might have
won, when the umps declared Har
ris out when he attempted to score
on Pete’s hit through second base.
Incidentally, Pete was doing much
to win his own game, as he collected
two hits during the afternoon. Brooks
Conover demonstrated that lefthand
ers hold no terror for him, by get
ting two licks. Pampell made a sen
sational play in the fifth when he
grabbed a hard hit grounder, tagged,
who was on base, and then threw to
first. Besides his great pitching and
timely hitting, Wendt fielded his
position perfectly, getting seven as
sists.
For the Longhorns, Higgins and
Hopkins starred to help Railton.
Higgins got three of the seven Tex
as hits, while the Longhorn captain
played his position flawlessly, rob
bing several Aggies of seeming hits.
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